I am new to DVD Authoring - I have a very long 'clip' with numerous chapters.
I want to add transitions.
How do I do this? Do I have to create separate clips instead of chapters?

Transitions can only be applied between clips, so to insert a transition into one clip, you'll have to first divide the clip into two or more clips.

To split your clip, use the clip split button in the Cut-edit window. The clip split button has an icon that looks like this:
<-|->
(two arrows and a bar in the middle).

First, navigate to where you want to split the clip. In your case, it would be at the chapter mark. You can simply double-click on the chapter point in the chapter list to go directly to that frame.
Use the clip split button to set the split point. Then click "OK". A clip split window appears. Click on the "Split" button to register each division as a separate clip.

Once you have two clips, go back the Source stage's main window and click on the "Transition editor" button on the right side of the window. This opens the transition editor window.
Here, you can select your transition and press "OK" to apply it. Back in the Source stage, the clip listing should now show the transition duration and animation type.

created my 1st dvd

have main menu then track menu

when i choose main menu layout each option seems to have 3 function buttons but whatever i do the only one i end up with is PLAY ALL whereas what i want is something like NEXT PAGE/TRACK MENU so i can go to track menu and then either select a track or PLAY ALL

anyone please??

I'm not sure how you can just have a Play All button and nothing else. You should have a Play All button and at least a Track thumbnail or text button to access your tracks.

If you can explain exactly what you are doing in more detail, maybe I can help you more.

Hi

The feature I use most is the quick encode from explorer, but I would like to modify the defaults, is this possible?

I love this program and I've tested most of the others, they simply aren't in the same ball park.

thx

This is possible. The Quick Encode feature uses the first encoding profile for each device (by default it should be "Standard Quality"). With MovieStyle open, you can right click on the first (or left-most) encoding profile and then change the setting to a different predefined profile, or even use a custom profile. You would have to do this for each device you would like to change the defaults on.

Hello,

Is it normal that the VOB file finalization procedure was so slow ?????

For a full DVD, it need about 4 minutes 30 for the "build track" and almost 10 minutes just for the VOB finalization.

With Version3, it was much faster.

Is there a way to improve the speed of finalization.

My source files are one 1 hard disk, the output is on another hard disk.

Hi there,

There are some options in TMPG Enc that enable caching into the temporary memory (RAM) of the computer. If these options are enabled the process of outputting the Audio and Video files is significantly faster.

Tick all of the following settings in preferences:

Preferences
Multithread settings
Use multithread for filtering
Use file caching
Prefetch video while encoding (default setting)
Prefetch audio while encoding (default setting)

The last two settings were disabled after we installed the software. The first output of a half hour video took an hour. After enabling this setting it took 10 minutes.

Cheers,

Karen

have created my 1st dvd-with title (main) menu and track menu (its a music dvd)

is it possible to change title page button function from "play all" to "next" so it does not skip the track menu?

Isn't there a thumbnail and/or text link to your track? If you have a track menu it should be there. That is what will link to your track menu.

Is there a way of changing so the output is not the 2 folders: audio_ts and video_ts? So it's .iso instead for example?

No, but you can use the Writing Tool to convert the video_ts folder into an .iso file.

Maybe Im doing something wrong, but i cant seem to delete my completed batch progects.

I have the same problem. If I try to delete the files, I get "Access is denied". Then, I can't even take ownership of the files... and I'm an administrator. It happens with all the VOB files.

I don't understand why but a created DVD with lots of talking is out of sync on my LCD TV but on an a CRT TV all is fine ie no lipsync problems at all

Video is 25 fps PAL standard, would adjustment to 30 or 29.97 etc help or not ?

Hi
I saw many templates and a lot of stuff for TW4 in Japan web site, I just wonder when those new stuff could be added in English site for downloading

I'm sure more will be coming to the English site. For DVD Author 3 templates appeared on the Japanese site first and then some of them were released on the English site later.

Hi

I have just purchased TAW4 and have found the every time i attempt to simulate a dvd the pc crashes and gives me a blue screen...is this a memory leak, bios clash or what?

Had been running version 3 with no issues at all.

Old versions were unistalled and a full new install completed.
Xpress 4 as well.

System was not having this issue until this software was installed.

Is running on XPPro SP2
4 Gig Ram
4TB FREE HDD
Nvidia 7500GE 512mb Graphics with 2009 Drivers
Intel Dual Core 2.7

Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas?

Thanks

Mark
New Zealand

It's possible that it's a memory leak. Did you contact support? They can probably give you a definitive answer.

***SOLVED***

Hi,

With awesome help from the support team I have found the problem to this issue.

It is an issue if you are running a ASUS motherboard with Enhanced Video and dual screen features.

The file that cause the crash is atkdisp.dll.

Here's what I did to fix it:
Desktop-> Properties-> Settings-> Advanced-> ASUS

I turned off ASUS OSD, and ASUS Splendid.

OSD and Splendid are both video altering software that is supposed to enhance the "experience". OSD allows you to set Brightness/Contras/Gamma. Splended allows you to set various coloring options.

Some have also fixed this issue by moving the atkdisp.dll to another folder.


the actual link to the solution is
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/driver-support/166722-resolved-re-atkdisp-dll-problem-causes-blue-screen.html

anyway hope it works for you...it did for.

Thats to TMPGENC support who provided me the link to the solution and offered a steady stream of possible fixes and work rounds...

Mark
NZ

>Hi
>
>I have just purchased TAW4 and have found the every time i attempt to simulate a dvd the pc crashes and gives me a blue screen...is this a memory leak, bios clash or what?
>
>Had been running version 3 with no issues at all.
>
>Old versions were unistalled and a full new install completed.
>Xpress 4 as well.
>
>System was not having this issue until this software was installed.
>
>Is running on XPPro SP2
>4 Gig Ram
>4TB FREE HDD
>Nvidia 7500GE 512mb Graphics with 2009 Drivers
>Intel Dual Core 2.7
>
>Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Mark
>New Zealand

Happy New Year to all.

Just purchased Xpress 4.0 and it is a thing of beauty.

My question: why is my CUDA option panel greyed out? I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 with 4 gigs of memory and my graphics card is the 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600GS.

Thanks in advance!

m22

Try by updating your graphic card´s driver, it may be is related with it,
good luck

Wouldn't worry too much about the cuda support anyway. It actually makes conversions slower on my system (QX9650 quad and 8800 GTS 512 2xSLI), and on many files the conversion stops with error "parameter is incorrect" at the very end even when not using any filters at all!

I enabled the CUDA renderer on the trial version and it works, just bought the full version, and I think it also works. What you were probably missing: go to Nvidia and get the CUDA DLL's - It's not a giant program, but it's essential: kind of like the operating system for doing logic on your GPU - has to be installed, or none of the apps can run. You should have no problem finding the download.

I'm using TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress to convert Quicktime files (Codec: H.264, 23.976 fps) into .avi (Codec: Panasonic DV CODEC-DVSD, 23.976 fps) so that I can edit them in Premiere Pro 1.5.

The converted files play fine. The problem is that they are missing the 1st frame of each clip. Sometimes TMPGEnc adds 1 frame at the end of the clip, other times it creates a clip that 1 frame shorter than the original.

Any ideas?